POETRY AND BELLES LETTRES.

Allingham.
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--LAWRENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND; or, the New Landlord. By _William
Allingham_. New and cheaper issue, with a Preface. Fcap. 8vo. cloth, 4_s_.
6_d_.

_In the new Preface, the state of Ireland, with special reference to the
Church measure, is discussed._

"_It is vital with the national character.... It has something of Pope's
point and Goldsmiths simplicity, touched to a more modern
issue_."--ATHENAEUM.

Arnold (Matthew).
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--POEMS. By _Matthew Arnold_. Two vols. Extra fcap. 8vo. cloth, 12_s_.
Also sold separately at 6_s_. each.

_Volume I. contains Narrative and Elegiac Poems; Volume II. Dramatic and
Lyric Poems. The two volumes comprehend the First and Second Series of the
Poems, and the New Poems._

NEW POEMS. Extra fcap. 8vo. 6_s_. 6_d_.

_In this volume will be found "Empedocles on Etna"; "Thyrsis" (written in
commemoration of the late Professor Clough); "Epilogue to Lessing's
Laocooen;" "Heine's Grave"; "Obermann once more." All these poems are also
included in the Edition (two vols.) above-mentioned._

ESSAYS IN CRITICISM. New Edition, with Additions. Extra fcap. 8vo. 6_s_.

CONTENTS:--_Preface; The Function of Criticism at the present time; The
Literary Influence of Academies; Maurice de Guerin; Eugenie die Guerin;
Heinrich Heine; Pagan and Mediaeval Religious Sentiment; Joubert; Spinoza
and the Bible; Marcus Aurelius._

Barnes (Rev. W.).
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--POEMS OF RURAL LIFE IN COMMON ENGLISH. By the REV. _W. Barnes_, Author
of "Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect." Fcap. 8vo. 6_s_.

_"In a high degree pleasant and novel. The book is by no means one which
the lovers of descriptive poetry can afford to lose."_--_Athenaeum_.

Bell.
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--ROMANCES AND MINOR POEMS. By _Henry Glassford Bell_. Fcap. 8vo. 6_s_.

"_Full of life and genius_."--_Court Circular_.

Besant.
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--STUDIES IN EARLY FRENCH POETRY. By _Walter Besant_, M.A. Crown. 8vo.
8_s_. 6_d_.

_A sort of impression rests on most minds that French literature begins
with the "siecle de Louis Quatorze;" any previous literature being for the
most part unknown or ignored. Few know anything of the enormous literary
activity that began in the thirteenth century, was carried on by Rulebeuf,
Marie de France, Gaston de Foix, Thibault de Champagne, and Lorris; was
fostered by Charles of Orl